Coping with socially sensitive topics discourse on interethnic marriages among elderly members of the Serbian minority in Hungary

Drawing on the field research conducted in the Serbian community in Szigetcsép, Hungary, the paper examines interlocutors’ oral discourse on interethnic marriages. Until the Second World War, the Serbs in Hungary, rural communities in particular, mainly practised endogamy. In the post-war era, however, they tended to be among the minority groups with the highest rate of exogamic marriages. Conse­quently, the interviewees established discourse links between “interethnic marriages”, “loss of native language” and “fear of identity loss”. The analytical focus is on the interlocutors’ internal dialogism between the authoritative word of the ancestors and autobiographical assertions

Collective narrative: the narrative on Croatian language from academic to far-right discourses in Serbia

The paper presents a case of under-represented narrative data which I call “collective narratives”. Drawing upon the concept of group-defining stories, it is argued that these narratives embody an antidote to the ’canonical’ Labovian paradigm as they construct collective subjectivity and causality. The paper explores how “collective narrative” is utilized in the discursive production of national identity by using a case study on Croatian language narrative which is perpetuated in some academic and far-right discourses in Serbia

Laihonen, Petteri (2009): Language Ideologies in the Romanian Bana: Analysis of Interviews and Academic Writings among the Hungarians and Germans. Jyväskylä: University of Jyväskylä

In his study, Petteri Laihonen explores how metalanguage is circulated in different discourses in one of Europe’s most multilingual regions – the Romanian Banat. Accordingly, the author carried out a many-sided analysis that aimed at: (1) exploring the range of folk theories or ideologies about language(s) in the Banat; (2) comparing the views of the local inhabitants with the views presented in the writings of the educated elite; (3) analyzing the interactional site (interviews) where metalinguistic talk occurred. Actually, this study is a doctoral dissertation defended in Hungarian Studies (University of Jyväskylä) in June 2009. It is composed of six articles, which have been written in three different languages (English, Hungarian and German) and published in reputable periodicals and collections. Furthermore, it includes an adjoined and extended introduction that summarizes the research background, the analytical methods, and the achieved goals. Although multilingualism in the Banat is investigated with a focus on the Hungarian language, all available data on the other regional languages is discussed throughout the book, especially with respect to the German written sources and interviews with German speakers. From a methodological point of view, the study is an attempt to bring together insights from the fields of Language Ideology and Conversational Analysis

А Shift in Ethics : Serb/Albanian Conflict in the Vernacular Discourse of a Conjurer from Kosovo

The paper offers the analysis of Vera Jovanović’s (1934) discourse, a well-known local expert in traditional medicine from the Serbian enclave of Vitina in Kosovo. Based on the transcriptions of the ethnolinguistic interview held during the summer of 2003, the present paper provides us with the analysis of Vera’s discourse on the subject of incantation, the traditional magical and medical practice. Within the frame of the conversation about Vera’s incantation practice, a few spontaneous discursive digressions regarding the personal war trauma revealed Vera’s change in attitude towards the local Albanians, which altered from the pre-war “notion of the ethnic (human) Other” to the post-war “dehumanization of the Other”. Thus, as Vera’s discourse indicated, it caused a dramatic shift in her incantation ethics by refusing to give help to the Albanians in need. In the present contribution, it is argued that spontaneous conversational digressions on the Serb/Albanian conflict provide us with valuable insights into the process of ethnic and religious divergence in Kosovo everyday life whereas discourse directly oriented toward the conflict topic introduces the ideological background of an individual.Рад нуди анализу дискурса Вере Јовановић (1934), познате локалне бајалице из српске енклаве Витина на Косову. На основу транскрипата из етнолингвистичких интервјуа одржаних током лета 2003, овај рад пружа анализу Вериног дискурса о теми бајања, традиционалне магије и медицинске праксе. У оквиру разговора о Вериној бајаличкој пракси, неколико спонтаних дигресија у вези с њеном личном ратном траумом открило је да је Вера променила однос према локалним Албанцима, који се из предратног појма „етничког (људског) Другог“ променио у послератно „дехуманизовано Друго“. То је проузроковало драматичну промену у њеној бајаличкој етици и одбијању да пружи помоћ Албанцима који јој се обрате за помоћ. У овом раду, тврди се да нам спонтане дигресије у разговорима с локланим актерима у српско-албанском сукобу пружају драгоцене увиде у процес етничке и верске дивергенције у свакодневном животу на Косову, док дискурс директно оријентисан ка конфликту развија превасходно идеолошке теме сукоба.http://www.zeitschrift-fuer-balkanologie.de/index.php/zfb/article/view/125/12

Those were all Serbian Villages by the Danube: The Concept of Spce in Collective Narratives of the Serbs in Hungary

One of the oldest written records of Serb migration to Hungary dates back to 1440 and refers to refugees who fled the Banat town of Kovin devastated by the Ottoman Turks, founding a new settlement of the same name on the Danube Island of Csepel (Hun. Ráckeve, Ser. Srpski Kovin; Ćirković 1982: 320). Although migration persisted from the Ottoman to the Hungarian territories – later Habsburg and Austro-Hungarian – two great waves have been particularly noted by historians. The First Serbian Migration led by the Orthodox Patriarch Arsenije III Čarnojević in 1690, also known as The Great Migration (Ser. Velika seoba), is thought to have been undertaken by about 30,000 Serbs, perhaps more. The Second Serbian Migration occurred in 1737, again led by an Orthodox Patriarch, Arsenije IV Jovanović, (Ćorović 1989; Popović 1954; Veselinović 1993). Ever since, the number of people declaring themselves as ethnic Serbs in population censuses, or declaring Serbian to be their mother tongue, has varied, as has the territory of Hungary throughout its history. Glancing at the census figures for the area of present-day Hungary, it is evident that the number of Serbian native language speakers decreased considerably throughout the 20th century. Since 1980, the numbers of those whose native language is Serbian and those whose nationality is Serbian have been approximately the same, the sign of a small, tightly-knit community. What kind of space model is unfolded by the collective narratives of the Szigetcsép Serbs? Constructed as a catalogue of topographic mnemotopos, the narratives of origin reveal space conceptualised as a discrete series of strong places, i.e. the Danube, the Serbian villages near the Danube, the first, the second, and the third settlement of Szigetcsép. Remembering the Danube (connection to the motherland) and Serbian villages by the Danube (connection to the Serbian community in Hungary), the Szigetcsép Serbs provide a spatial framework for their micro-community (three settlements). In regard to the settlements too, certain strong places or sites were singled out and remembered, most of them being in fact sacred sites (the church, the cross, etc.). Yet again, in the origin narratives the dynamic process of remembering and oblivion can be traced. The last thing the informants remembered about the first settlement – the furthest removed from them in time – was its physical locus, and this was preserved only vaguely in oral collective memory. This finding justifies the argument of Detelić (1992: 317) that in the process of cultural modelling the space is always attached to the "original" as its inseparable element. As for the collective identity of the Szigetcsép Serbs, it could be said that the semantics of physical continuity embodied in the space model dominate, absorb and emanate time semantics. Through the catalogue of settlements time takes on flesh, and becomes palpable and visible. However, in the collective narrative on the village area, space is conceptualised through binary oppositions, "own/alien", "our/their" (the Swabian/Catholic/Serbian part), and even through very archaic opposition "sacred/profane" (the cross, the processions delineating and consecrating the Serbian part as the sacred one). Yet, the oppositions "friendly/hostile", "familiar/unfamiliar" are left out of this space concept. In the case of the Serbs in Hungary it is obvious that space marked as "own", "our", "sacred" was delineated primarily along the confessional principle. As Mladenova (2004: 177) points out, four valuable elements constitute the basis for the various identity discourses: the people who participate in the events that take place in a certain territory over time. The values attributed to these four variables as well as the choice of events to be remembered will vary for different discourses even when they are rooted in the same set of reality. "This significance is determined by their being perceived as having some consequence for the present: we are what we are because this or that happened in our past" (Holy 1996: 117; cit. Mladenova 2004: 107). In that sense, the analysed discourse samples do not reflect real, everyday life as they are highly charged with emotion and ideological values. The memory of the migration route provides for the Szigetcsép Serbs a sense of community across time and space and supports the notion of "belonging" to the native Serbian ethnic group. On the other hand, if we compare these results with field research among the neighbouring South-Slav Catholics in the village of Tököl (unpublished field material by the author), we see that space model and migration route play almost no role in identity negotiation within this community. The persistence of such an archaic space notion with many of its antiquated features among the Serbian peasantry in Hungary is certainly due to confessional differentiation in the multi-confessional environment of what was formerly Austro-Hungary, where the confessional mark in the Serbian case has been reflected and imprinted on the space, memory practice and identity discourse. As significant changes in socio-cultural settings take place throughout Europe, it remains to be seen how new forms of identity negotiations will expand among the younger and coming generations in a rural environment. In that sense it would be interesting to compare traditional and contemporary concepts of space among South-Slav Catholics, and the South-Slav and Romanian Orthodox living in the multi-ethnic environment of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire.Studies on Language and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe (Book 8) ZUSAMMENFASSUNG Im historischen Aufriss und in feldforschungsbasierten Studien wird deutlich, welche Rolle die Donau als Kulturgrenze zwischen dem Erbe der Habsburger und der Osmanen spielt. Das Ende beider Imperien ist letztlich durch den Import des Sprachnationalismus in ethnisch stark durchmischte und national weitgehend indifferente Milieus besiegelt worden, in denen das neue Ideal überdialektaler Einsprachigkeit zugleich als Ausweis ethnischer und nationaler Gruppenzugehörigkeit gewertet wurde. Dieser Band enthält drei Beiträge von Markus Koller, Milena Marić-Vogel und Christoph Giesel zum ehemals osmanischen (Bosnien und SandŽak) und vier Beiträge von Philipp Wasserscheidt, Marija Vučković, Marija Ilić und Ivo Žanic zum ehemals habsburgischen Südosteuropa (Südungarn). Die Artikel thematisieren das Verhältnis von Sprache, Religion und Ethnizität

Resilient State Estimation in Presence of Severe Coordinated Cyber-Attacks on Large-Scale Power Systems

Providing situational awareness in light of severe coordinated cyber-attacks on power grids, where many measurements may be untrusted, is necessary for reliable monitoring and resilient operation of the grid. In this scenario, the set of good measurements is by itself insufficient for state estimation due to loss of observability. In this paper, we present a resilient state estimation algorithm, based on output clustering. By augmenting the measurement set by respective cluster variables, the system observability is regained, and a reliable state estimate can be computed. We show the numerical performance of our proposed algorithm and its ability to successfully replace corrupted measurements using cluster variables through an example on the IEEE 24-bus power system.Comment: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2004.0383

Distributed Consensus Control of DFIGs with Storage for Wind Farm Power Output Regulation

Today the state-of-the-art (SoA) wind generators (WGs) are the double-fed induction (DFIGs) with integrated storage devices. In the future, these WGs are expected to be one of the largest producers of renewable energy worldwide. In this paper, we propose a distributed control methodology for solving the problem of coordinating and controlling a group of SoA WGs to attain fast wind farm (WF) power output regulation with each storage device providing the same amount of power, i.e with equal sharing among the storage devices. Our proposed methodology introduces a consensus protocol for coordinating the grid-side converters (GSCs), whose dynamical equations constitute their closed-loop dynamics, and a particular closed-loop form for the interfacing capacitor dynamics. We establish stability of these closed-loop dynamics by leveraging singular perturbation and Lyapunov theories, proving that with these closed-loop dynamics DFIGs accomplish their assigned control objectives. Finally, we analytically construct a distributed and a Control Lyapunov Function (CLF) -based control law for the GSC and the DCDC converter respectively, which jointly lead to the desired closed-loop dynamics. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our methodology through simulations on the IEEE 24-bus reliability test system (RTS)